"The crystal structures of the real world are extremely diverse. They are one of nature's deepest mysteries," says Kubo, the first author of the paper. "We thought that, in a way, we could get a ...

Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have discovered a new method to increase the efficiency of solar cells by a factor of 1,000. The team of scientists achieved this ...

"If the crystal structure was correct ... structure—the Neumann's principle requires the crystal and the lattice structures to have the same symmetry." Recent studies gathered extensive evidence ...

Their ordered atomic arrangements are why most minerals have a crystal structure, as repeating units layer up. There are a few rare exceptions for solids that are considered minerals and have an ...

Researchers have explored a fascinating cooling phenomenon within halide perovskite-based "dots-in-crystal" materials, ...

Zinc sulphide exists with two different crystal structures, the cubic zinc blend (top diagram) and the hexagonal Wurtzite (lower diagram). In the zinc blend structure the sulphur ions form an fcc ...

The average grain size of a typical bulk metal is about 10 μm at the smallest. In this new technology, the average crystal ...

Sodium Chloride is an alkali halide with an fcc crystal structure. The basis is two ions, a sodium cation and a chlorine anion. The crystal lattice parameter is 0.563 nm. The diagram shows both a unit ...

Researchers have generated a tunable plasma photonic crystal 'kaleidoscope' with rich diversity of geometric configurations ...